Medical malpractice

important qualities that I have to offer my future patients. My first month shadowing Dr. Komotar, a neurosurgeon at U.M health system, was an enlightening and self-discovering experience for me. Being the most active and hard-working member of my pre-medical club, M.A.P.S, I acquired the opportunity to shadow Dr. Komotar in the O.R and in clinic. Despite the O.R being cold to prevent infections, my heart felt warm…

The article by author James Rachel is a crucial criticism to the doctrine accepted by the doctors that is endorsed in a statement by the American Medical Association. The main argument is challenging the conventional doctrine of using passive euthanasia i.e. letting the patient die then active euthanasia i.e. killing the patient directly, even though the latter one is considered more humane than the former. He supports this argument by saying that for a patient with an incurable disease, it is…

Terror Management Theory and Self-Esteem: Effects on Psychopathology Terror Management Theory The terror management theory posits that people build character and culture to shield themselves from the potential for anxiety caused by the awareness of their mortality (Greenberg & Arndt, 2012). Humans fear death, and from that fear, “the urge for immortality becomes an underlying role in human behavior and their social psychology” (Greenberg & Arndt, 2012, p. 401). There are two notable features…

The book is called Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach. Why choose this book? One reason for choosing this book is that death is very scary but also interesting. Everyone always is afraid of death of course that when it is in front of everyone what will they do? Some people will run away or get scared. Some will be the brave or just surgeons. Surgeons almost every day have to deal with many people but some are surgeons for cadavers. After reading the book it wants to show…

Is Animal Testing Worth It? Every year, nearly one hundred million animals --including mice, rats, dogs, monkeys, etc.-- die in many United States laboratories because of cosmetic, medical and biology testing, and experiments that serve no purpose. To understand the true terrors of animal testing, people need to know what animals are going through. Animals in laboratories suffer from day-to-day protocols and laboratory life, many do not even get a chance to experience fresh air or sunshine…

In the case, When Living Feels Like Dying: Ethical Decision Making with a Depressed Dialysis Client, which is described in the roleplaying description. Reamer page 51 tells us that the purpose of the NASW code of ethics gives us an idea of the code’s main function as well as the principle for dealing with ethical matters or dilemmas while in the human service profession. These ethics have a wide array of ethical principles and allows us to reflect the profession’s core values by having ethical…

take english four, pre-calculus or calculus or statistics, anatomy and physiology, psychology, health science four, and economics. After high school you need to have a really good plan. My plan is to go to Madison because they have a really good medical program. While I am there I would have to do schooling for four years. In those four years I would have to get a bachelor's degree. If I want to achieve the goal of being a radiologist I could get my Master’s before I apply for a…

Introduction An MRI (or Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan is a radiology technique that uses a large magnet, radio waves, and a computer to look at organs and structures inside our bodies. Single MRI images are called slices can be stored on a computer or printed on film. An MRI combines images to create a 3-D picture of your internal structures. The MRI scanner is a tube surrounded by a huge circular magnet. The patient is placed on a moveable bed that is inserted into the magnet. An MRI…

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is typically a supraventricular tachyarrhythmia which is known for having an uncoordinated atrial activation resulting in worsening of atrial mechanical function. (1) AF is very common and presents around one-third of hospital admissions due to cardiac rhythm disturbances. There has been a substantial increase in hospital admission for AF which can be the result of an aging of the population and an increase in prevalence chronic heart disease.(2–4) Nonvalvular AF is…

Should Marijuana be Legal for Medicinal Purposes? Medical research involved legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes would improve human’s health. Marijuana is very helpful in medical conditions. Marijuana contains some chemicals that are beneficial to human and may help treat a range of disease or symptoms. One of its chemicals called cannabinoid, cannabinoid can be use in pill form. Despite all these benefits, some people believe that marijuana should be illegal. But I favor that it…